Happy Birthday #4

Apparently, there are many who are born in summer. 😀 Usually I don't send this "many" "handmade" cards in summer because I'm usually busy but the ideas have been popping up in my head and I keep making, with less time. 👍

I love this stencil, I mean, the background from Pretty Pink Posh, but had never had a chance to use it. I'm happy when I get to use something I bought a while ago! And of course, the strawberry short cake from Waffle Flowers! And, the darkest color of blue is called Capri from Concord & 9th. I'm in love with this color.😍 I bought the 2026 assorted color collection (card stock), and this is one from that package. 

As most of you know, Hawaii had a Hurricane LALA and Honolulu lost power for several hours to four days? ... severe weather everywhere... please stay safe! Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Love, Eve

Happy Birthday #3

Aloha~

Summer is busy with my personal stuff but also there are many birthdays.🎂

The recipient lost her beloved kitty last year and in June, she adopted another kitty. I tried to add "her" on this birthday card. 😊I enjoy making "customized" cards as much as I can, even if they are just card making people I "met"online. But, you will never know if we meet in person someday! In fact, I met three people in card making groups in the past! 

I used images from My favorite things, Waffle Flowers, Paper Trey Ink and the sentiment from Lawn Fawn. This is probably the first time I've been using the back side of designer's papers from one paper pad many more than the front ones which I loved and purchased! Funny, huh?!

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope you are having a good week. Some parts of US are still experiencing severe weather... stay safe! 🙏 Love, Eve

Coffee & "summerween" collab.!

Aloha~

My coffee swap card for August! I'd been wanting to make "SUMMERWEEN" card. This is my first ever (in my whole life! and 35+ years of card making life!) "Summerween" card. In fact, I'd been seeing the coffee mugs in dies and stamp sets since last fall and I got an idea. No, I don't own this die which I used for this card. I "improvised". We, the old card makers used to "improvise" A LOT because there were not many products available back then. But I enjoyed coming up with ideas and shared those with other card makers, in "snail mails" and some via emails, like in the Yahoo groups, remember those?? Years before Facebook! Now, you CAN BUY almost everything... kinda lost fun for the creativity but the businesses have to thrive so I understand. Things EVOLVE over the time. 

The pumpkin & ghost dies are from Spellbinders. I went through all my dies with "handles", for this size and shape of pumpkin and found one from my MFT collection. I attached the handle. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good, don't you think? The background "sandy" beach and waves are from Honey Bee Stamps. I also used the "sandy" stamps on the kraft card stock before die cutting/imprinting. The top sentiment is from NND, used the die cut after stamping. The bottom sentiment in gold was with a little work. See, this was my first ever SUMMERWEEN (collaboration) card and didn't have the sentiment, so, I went to my sticker book and found this cursive alphabet stickers, so, I used them, trying to lining up as much as possible. I'm glad it worked well, with that particular color and thin font. The shell dies are from both IO and HA. 

Inside, I stamped the sentiment and the ghost cup from NND. I really like how I did to my first ever "summerween" coffee card! 😊For next year, though, I plan to buy stamp set which has "(happy) summerween" sentiment, on this year's Black Friday sale. 🤞

I'm content with "Summerween" cuz I love summer and Halloween but usually I couldn't combine those, for many years but thanks to the industry(!!) they came up with the idea from most liking Christmas in July idea! 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! I really like this card. Let's get "improvised", once again! Love, Eve

Happy Birthday #2 in August

Aloha~

Have you ever order directly from Honey Bee Stamps? I received this design printed on the white card stock, in the package as a freebie. They do that, mostly, different designs. This one, as you can see, looked right for one of the birthday cards I was going to make. 

I used watercolor pencils to color the image. I fussy cut the image and attached on two different designer's papers. I stamped the sentiment from Waffle Flowers. I used the sentiment strip on the bottom, from Simon Says Stamps. Oh, the steam are from Concord & 9th. 

Inside, I stamped My Favorite Stamps sentiment and attached the stenciled strawberry shortcake from Waffle Flowers. 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. Hope you are having a pleasant weekend! Love, Eve